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Root OTA for ICS says failed!! Need help

When they had the last update for GB I never could get the update to install on mine. I had to wipe my phone, install the factory recovery, download the updates the re-root. I am wondering if I am going to have the same problem with this one. I to have the Voodoo unroot installed, it didn't work the last time. Wonder if it will this time.
 
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When they had the last update for GB I never could get the update to install on mine. I had to wipe my phone, install the factory recovery, download the updates the re-root. I am wondering if I am going to have the same problem with this one. I to have the Voodoo unroot installed, it didn't work the last time. Wonder if it will this time.

I would venture a guess that you have to remove the su binary first, but what do I know :D:D
 
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Im guessing that you guys got prompted for the update early because you signed up for the soak test. You should hopefully be prompted again when everyone else is.

Perhaps having a custom recovery is what prevented the update from going through or you deleted some bloatware?

That prevents some OTA's on other devices that have that modification! Well known issue on other devices. Great tip.
 
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I had to use matt's utl. to flash stock and then unroot it to work. No matter what I tried I could not get it to update until I went all stock and then updated it. I know I froze some bloat, and uninstalled some, but restored it all, or so I thought, But I guess it did not like what I had done.
Best this is there are many people out there way smarter out there than I am, and they like to write things down for me to follow :)
Good luck@
 
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